Biography
Born in Illinois in 1944; graduated from Harvard College; first book
Tike and Five Stories published 1969, awarded Rosenthal Foundation Award of National Institute of Arts and Letters; lecturer at Tufts 1969-78; taught five years at Harvard, two at U.Mass Boston, and four at Wellesley before returning to Tufts as senior lecturer in 1989; won National Endowment for the Arts grants 1968, 1986; teaches in summer English M.A. program at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf Campus; active in Tufts' Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgendered community.

Research Interests
In addition to nine published works of fiction, I have made performing editions of four libretti by W.S.Gilbert by arranging music by Arthur Sullivan to fit Gilbert's texts;
Thespis (the first G&S opera whose original score has been lost) has been performed in my edition at the Wallace Stevens Theater in Hartford and the Academy of Music in Northampton;
The Gentleman in Black was performed at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire,
Happy Arcadia by the Royal Victorian Opera Co., and
Topsyturvydom by the New England G&S Society. More broadly, I am very much interested in 19th Century opera of all sorts.